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Higher Learning is the desperately confused response to all these pressures. It finds on a single college campus every imaginable youthful type: a track star on an athletic scholarship (Omar Epps), who is convinced he is being exploited; his very smart, very pretty girlfriend (Tyra Banks), who is coolly intent on using the system to her advantage; a young white woman (Kristy Swanson), victimized by date rape, tempted by lesbianism, ultimately redeemed and betrayed by her idealistic political activism; a socially maladroit loner (Michael Rapaport), who finds a dank spiritual home with the local neo- Nazis. The rapper Ice Cube...
...major victory for the prosecution, Judge Lance Ito ruled that today that the jury will be allowed to hear some of theevidence of alleged domestic violence in O.J. Simpson's past. Ito said that the evidence can be presented to prove motive and intent. The jury will now get to hear the highly publicized 911 emergency call made by Nicole Simpson on New Year's Day in 1989, which led to criminal charges against O.J., and will be told about a 1985 baseball bat attack that damaged...
...work by Seymour-Smith belongs to that peculiar subspecies of biography in which the author seems less intent on etching a life than on erasing previous lives: he is obsessed with discrediting earlier biographies. Hardy in recent years has been the subject of two substantial portraits, Michael Millgate's and Robert Gittings', both of which bathe him in a cold, harsh light. Seymour-Smith strives "to see how much gaiety and good humor coexisted in Hardy, with the too celebrated gloom." That's a noble-sounding goal, and yet the paradoxical result is dispiriting: a spiteful-seeming attempt to prove...
However, it was very clear to anybody there, as well as anybody who knows the type of person Paul Hanson is, that he kept the meeting in session out of his concern that everybody in the house would have an opportunity to express their opinions. There was no malicious intent on Paul's part. In fact, Paul and his wife Cynthia Rosenberger have been doing an excellent job as Winthrop House masters in attempting to bring the House together and to make it a place where people of different backgrounds can live together...
...person may disturb an individual engaged in the lawful taking of an animal with the intent to dissaude the individual or otherwise prevent the taking of the animal." --A Montana law recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court designed to protect hunters from animal rights activists. Quoted in yesterday's New York Times...